Functional richness and ecosystem services by frugivorous birds in fragmented landscapes

• Grant number: 13/19732-1
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate
• Effective date (Start): August 01, 2014
• Effective date (End): November 30, 2017
• Field of knowledge: Biological Sciences - Ecology - Applied Ecology
• Acordo de Cooperação: Coordination of Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES)
• Principal Investigator: Milton Cezar Ribeiro
• Grantee: Fabio Monteiro de Barros
• Host Institution: Instituto de Biociências (IB). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Rio Claro. Rio Claro , SP, Brazil
• Associated scholarship(s): 16/15376-4 - Seed dispersal and others ecosystem functions played by birds at the interface forest/matrix in fragmented landscapes, BE.EP.DR

Abstract

Birds are involved in many important ecosystem functions that help sustain many ecosystems on Earth. However, few of these functions were quantified or studied from the perspective of ecosystem services. The current challenge is to obtain meaningful estimates of ecosystem services that can be used to incorporate in biodiversity conservation and land use management policy. The frugivorous birds can be considered a major seed dispersers in tropical forests, contributing to regeneration and resilience of habitats in the landscape. Therefore, investigating the functional richness of frugivorous birds at different spatial scales, a large region fragmented, may generates valuable information about the regeneration capacity of habitats at landscape level. Moving forward in this direction of scientific knowledge, this study will aim to answer the following questions: What spatial scales best describes the richness and abundance of frugivorous birds in fragmented landscapes ? Which landscape parameters best describe the functional diversity and the richness and abundance of frugivorous birds in fragmented landscapes? The study will be conducted in several fragmented landscapes in the Cantareira-Mantiqueira Corridor, southeastern Brazil. In the chapter 1, secondary data on bird occurrence in many site within a large region of Atlantic forest domain. In the chapter 2 and 3, circular landscapes with 1 km radius will be sampled along the study area. In each landscape, frugivorous birds will be sampled by point counts in forest environment (small fragments, gallery forests, large fragments), and also in pastures close to the forest patches. Land use maps of study region will be generated to calculate landscapes parameters at different spatial scales around the sample points. (AU)

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

ANUNCIACAO, PAULA RIBEIRO; BARROS, FABIO M.; RIBEIRO, MILTON CEZAR; TAVARES DE CARVALHO, LUIS MARCELO; ERNST, RAFFAEL. Taxonomic and functional threshold responses of vertebrate communities in the Atlantic Forest Hotspot. Biological Conservation, v. 257, MAY 2021. (13/19732-1, 13/50421-2, 16/15376-4)

RAMOS, DANIELLE LEAL; PIZO, MARCO AURELIO; RIBEIRO, MILTON CEZAR; CRUZ, RAFAEL SOUZA; MORALES, JUAN MANUEL; OVASKAINEN, OTSO. Forest and connectivity loss drive changes in movement behavior of bird species. ECOGRAPHY, v. 43, n. 8, MAY 2020. (13/50421-2, 13/19732-1)

BARROS, FABIO M.; PERES, CARLOS A.; PIZO, MARCO A.; RIBEIRO, MILTON CEZAR. Divergent flows of avian-mediated ecosystem services across forest-matrix interfaces in human-modified landscapes. LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY, v. 34, n. 4, p. 879-894, APR 2019. (13/19732-1, 13/50421-2, 16/15376-4)

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

BARROS, Fabio Monteiro de. Species composition, ecological functions and ecosystem services by birds across forest-matrix interfaces in tropical disturbed landscapes. 2017. Doctoral Thesis - Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp). Instituto de Biociências. Rio Claro Rio Claro.